The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-09-15

from sixteen to eighteen inches high
and that contained dynamite, and that
he (Lingg) spent that evening IN
filling dynamite into gas pipe
and Globular, using a fat piece OF
wood, which he had made for the pur-
pose, and he was also assisted by
humber of persons, and Seliger among
them. Upwards of fifty bomts were
finished that afternoon, and 1t appears
to have been continued till the very
evening of the Haymarket meeting.
The record goes on, duplicating others,
especially one Heubuer, who was seen
working at some coil fuse, and Llngg,
Selinger, Theilen and Herman, were
frequently engaged in casting ana
melting in Seliger's kitchen. Then Iol-
lows description of the premises. Inc
pieces of shells made by Lingg were
subject to chemical analysis, and were
found to be composed of certain per,
centage of tin and the remainder OF iead
and anthony, iron and zinc. In three
of the four bombs examined, the per-
centage varied but slightly, and the
pieces taken from Deggan's body and
those found at Lipgg's, after his arrest,
run the same in composition. The
evidence goes on to further complicate
Lingg's connection with this terrible
affair, so closely, that escape for
him would be impossible. After
fastening the evidence as to
Lingg's guilt, the court asks
the question: why did Lingg
make the bomb which killed Deggan2"
To answer this, it becomes necessary to
examine the character of the associa-
ton with which these defendants were
connected, and its aim. There were no
questions about this organization, nor
| little about its objects. Its platform
was published by certain bureau OF
information, called the Alarm and the
| A-beiter Zeitung. The court quoted
many familiar extracts from that in
cendiary sheet; of course among them
are the peculiar ideas OF the
Communists, the abolition OF titles
to lands, and a sort of free
dom which is far beyond, or
ages in the rear of, modern civilization,
and in some of these articles the charge
is made that the State, the churches,
the schools, the press, are in the pay
and under the sway of the capitalists,
and that the laborers must overthrow
these powers by physical strength. 1t
is admitted, and even positively
asserted, that such thing as right OF
| property ID uOI Ohly q" Wy uu'
great wrong to those who, by lazlness
and other faults, have never earned
property or by their want of thrift
cannot keep such as they may have
had. This association, as Judge
Maeruder aptly expressed it in his
very logical opinion, subverts all law.
His honor goes further, and in his
descriptive mention of the gentlemen
who come to7a free country and try TO
ruin it at sight, he says: These men
should read our Constitution, our laws
and they will find that they are
hemmed in with law, but the yoke is Sc
light that none will feel it," and so his
honor goes on. There was another
newspaper called the Alarm, mentioned
before, and defendant Fielden owned
some stock in it, and it was
under the management CT Engel
and others of these defendants
The court at some length, but in 3
rather cogent argument, proceeded to
connect the other feionies in the case
for instance, that these defendants
were the chief movers and the centre
of all communistic meetings in Chicago
and that they were always pronounced
leaders Of the Red Flag. The evidence
was, says his honor, that there were
| twenty-five to thirty labor unions in
Chicago at that time, embracing q
membership of from $4,000 to 5000. A
large majority of these were honest,
industrious men, working daily for
their daily bread, well-meaning men and
had no thought of anarchy, or any of
| its hateful doctrines. The court says
the assemblage, for any ordinary pur-
pose, would have been lawful; but it
was conducted as an unlawful assem-
blage, even prior to the arming and
drilling of the groups, and was viola
ton of the militia laws of the State of
! Illinois Quoting the section which pro-
vldes that it shall be unlawful for any
company to drill or parade with arms
in the State without authority.) The
argument goes further, and finds that
each of these defendants has willfuliy
and mallciously violated the laws of the
State of Illinois, and that they shall
suffer its extreme penalty fixed by the
court of Cook County on the day pre-
viously stated.
1t was claimed in one of the organs of
the dynamite throwers that bomb in
the hands of one man would be equal to
a regiment, and while the testimony
was irrelevant, yet it contained no point
to Justify a reversal of the judgment; as
specimens of the weapons which
depraved men, or men of no heart,
could use against their fellow -creatures,
nothing in modern times can approach
the exquisite means devised by these
Anarchists, and they seemed to have
made study of that awful purpose.
The court very carefully explains
the law as to conspiracy In all its
phases, and quotes extensively from
eminent authorities. The court fur
Their says it is a mistake to assume
that defendant cannot be charged with
advising, encouraging, aiding and abet-
ting an unknown principal in the perpe-
tration of a crime, and following that
point His Honor gives very familiar
and trite and well-known examples
and follows it with a long list OF
reliable authorities. 1t is very
clear principle of law, decided
by many courts, that the man
who being present, aiding and abetting,
or assisting and advised, encouraged,
aided or abetted, the preparation of
crime are considered as the principal,
and so is the case at bar. Conse-
quently, some of these defendants are
correctly chargeable as accessories be-
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